Topic #3: From Communism to Free Enterprise / Political Challenges (p. 430-432)
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Communism- any system of government in which a single, usually totalitarian, party holds power, and the state controls the economy
Free enterprise system-a market economy
Nuclear Energy- power made by a controlled atomic reaction
Democracy-a government in which the people freely elect their leaders
Federal Republic-democracy or form of government
The fall of communism lead Russians to adopt a market economy or free enterprise system and wanted to become more independent and wanted to be able to choose things themselves
With the free enterprise system it allows the Russian people to build and run there own business without the intervention of the government
Life expectancy depends on how health the population is
Chechnya is a small place near the Caspian Sea where the Chechen people live
a russian president has more power than an american president
nuclear waste is power made by creating a controlled atomic reaction they leave dangerous by- products
free enterprise system is when people start and run businesses with little government intervention
the government told factory manager what products to make and how many and who they could sell it to
a free enterprise system is where people start and run their own buisnesess with little government intervention russian factory managers can decide what they want to make
people are suffering from pollution and life expectancy is declining
the communist government polluted the air, and poisoned the water they built energy plants that leave dangerous by products.
life expectancy is the number of years an average person lives?
nuclear energy-- power made by a controlled atomic action
pollution was all over Russia
democracy-- a government in which people can vote freely vote leaders
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